- Porl King
__NOTOC__Porl King, born
19 October 1967 on the Wirral inMerseyside ,England , first achieved public acclaim and success as thesinger ,songwriter andguitarist for the goth band Rosetta Stone from their inception in the late 1980s through to their demise in 1998.Since disbanding Rosetta Stone in 1998, he has pursued a career in digital audio and
Pro Tools production.King has also taken the opportunity to work with the French progressive act Mellow, for whom he has done many remixes - which culminated in the production of material which King developed from their musical score created for the
Roman Coppola art-house movie CQ. He has also continued to play and write guitar for the critically acclaimedLiverpool band Mulu.miserylab
King began writing and recording his own material again late in 2005 under the guise of "
miserylab ". On17 July 2007 , miserylab has released "the vaporware ep", consisting of four tracks, for free download via the community websiteMySpace .Describing King's remix style: Xfm Radio said in their review of the song Coming Second by Elbow, "misery:lab's Porl King - delivers something that sounds not unlike
Depeche Mode at their heaviest" - and made it single of the week.King admits that miserylab has more of a political edge, driven by his frustration at the artificial horror imagery that clouded perceptions of Goth music. He says, "I wanted to provide a more grounded realistic sense of horror. I really don’t feel that anything works properly in our supposedly civilized infrastructure: governmental priorities are all wrong, pseudo-christian morality, and apart from all the obvious views on the war in Iraq and my thoughts on animal rights, there are more ordinary issues. The fact that few workers can afford to buy homes where they live, that poor wages are propped up by tax credits and benefits, these things prove fundamentally that capitalism just doesn’t work."cite journal|author=Tim Riley|year=2007|month=November|title=Icons of Sound - Miserylab|journal= [http://www.woundmagazine.com Wound Magazine] |volume=1|issue=1|pages=40| publisher=Francis Malone|location=London|issn=1755-800X]
Health
On
11 September 2007 , King suffered a heart attack inLeeds and was taken by ambulance toLeeds General Infirmary , where he survived and was put on an eight week recovery programme.cite web|url=http://forum.topmum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=897&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=porl+king+heart+attack|title=Porl King from Rosetta stone had heart attack|work=Whitby Gothic Weekend|author=Hazel|year=2007|accessdate=2007-11-05]References
External links
* [http://www.miserylab.com MiseryLab official website]
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